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Kirkpatrick Hill on Bo at Ballard Creek

by Roger Sutton
Jun 26, 2013 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
In the May/June 2013 Horn Book Magazine, Roger Sutton asked Kirkpatrick Hill about her protagonist's two papas in Bo at Ballard Creek. Read the starred review here.

Roger Sutton: So, are they or aren’t they?

Kirkpatrick Hill: Such partnerships were so ubiquitous when I was a kid that nothing could have been more natural to the story than having Bo’s papas partner up. Of course most partnerships were formed because looking for gold was never-ending killer work, too much for one man. For Arvid and Jack, the work that was too much for one man was raising a baby.

 
Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton

Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton was editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996-2021. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his MA in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a BA from Pitzer College in 1978.

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